By George, the most complex turbine aircraft I ever flew had the check lists which were in the form of small "click over" lists on the glare shield, when all checks were done they folded down out of sight thus no" heads down "during taxi.The most items on any one of these was nine!
It would seem that those with experience are all on side here, so how do we fix it? For myself Im taking instructors along on revenue flights to try to show them the real world, however its an uphill task, one of them turned up with his "own" checklist which included pressing to test the gear lights after the three greens were on , and I quote "make sure its not just a short putting them on", I gues the bloody great thump under the floor when the uplatches let go could in his mind have been a bird strike! There has to be a middle ground between "Kick the tires, light the fires, first one of the ground is leader and brief on guard", and the present babblespeak , we can but try.